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All That's Happening behind the Scenes: Putting the Spotlight on Volunteer Moderator Labor in Reddit
Hanlin Li, Brent Hecht, Stevie Chancellor
Online volunteers are an uncompensated yet valuable labor force for many social platforms. For example, volunteer content moderators perform a vast amount of labor to maintain onli…
Measuring the Monetary Value of Online Volunteer Work
Hanlin Li, Brent Hecht, Stevie Chancellor
Online volunteers are a crucial labor force that keeps many for-profit systems afloat (e.g. social media platforms and online review sites). Despite their substantial role in uphol…
Towards Better Driver Safety: Empowering Personal Navigation Technologies with Road Safety Awareness
Runsheng Xu, Shibo Zhang, Yue Zhao +4
Recent research has found that navigation systems usually assume that all roads are equally safe, directing drivers to dangerous routes, which led to catastrophic consequences. To…
Not at Home on the Range: Peer Production and the Urban/Rural Divide
Isaac Johnson, Allen Yilun Lin, Toby Jia-Jun Li +4
Wikipedia articles about places, OpenStreetMap features, and other forms of peer-produced content have become critical sources of geographic knowledge for humans and intelligent te…
Pharos: improving navigation instructions on smartwatches by including global landmarks
N. Wenig, D. Wenig, S. Ernst +3
Landmark-based navigation systems have proven benefits relative to traditional turn-by-turn systems that use street names and distances. However, one obstacle to the implementation…
Out of Site: Empowering a New Approach to Online Boycotts
H. Li, B. Alarcon, S. M. Espinosa +2
GrabYourWallet, #boycottNRA and other online boycott campaigns have attracted substantial public interest in recent months. However, a number of significant challenges are preventi…
Helping Computers Understand Geographically-Bound Activity Restrictions
M. Soll, P. Naumann, J. Schöning +2
The lack of certain types of geographic data prevents the development of location-aware technologies in a number of important domains. One such type of "unmapped" geographic data i…
Improving Interaction with Virtual Globes through Spatial Thinking: Helping Users Ask "Why?"
J. Schöning, B. Hecht, M. Raubal +3
Virtual globes have progressed from little-known technology to broadly popular software in a mere few years. We investigated this phenomenon through a survey and discovered that, w…
The Geography of Pokémon GO: Beneficial and Problematic Effects on Places and Movement
Ashley Colley, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Allen Yilun Lin +10
The widespread popularity of Pokémon GO presents the first opportunity to observe the geographic effects of location-based gaming at scale. This paper reports the results of a mixe…